LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Intrigue
Margate, Kent. At 5.55 on the even- ing of the 27th October, 1961, the coast-guard informed the honorary secretary that the master of the Tongue lightvessel had wirelessed that a sailing yacht with four people on board was secured astern...
Wild Rose
— About 6 A.M. on the 25th August, a small yacht with four persons on board was seen to be dragging her anchors in the prevailing S.W. gale, and it was deemed expedient to send assistance. Eleven of the Life-boat's crew therefore pro-...
Miriam Thomas
Baltimore, Co. Cork.—On the 9th January the collier Miriam Thomas, of Liverpool, broke from her moorings during a whole S.S.W. gale, with a rough sea, and drifted broadside on towards a dangerous lee. shore. At 3.30 P.M. the motor life-boat...
Hondsrug
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.
—At 2.27 in the afternoon, on the 18th of December, 1949, the Gorleston coast- guard reported that a vessel at anchor off Britannia Pier, Great Yarmouth, was flying a signal for...
The Remarkable Mrs, M'Gonigle
This article about Mrs. Dorothy M'Gonigle, of Stockton, who is doing sterling work for the R.N.L.I., was written by Susan Slater and first appeared in the 'Evening Gazette', Middlesbrough.
It is reproduced by...
Category: Articles
The Weymouth Crabber Kael Coz
Four saved from grounded crabber In a letter from the chief of operations, Padstow lifeboat crew has been praised for a service which 'was carried out in dangerous conditions' and which 'called upon each of the crew's...
James Lay
The steam trawler James Lay, of London, with a crew of fourteen on board, bound for Hull, laden with fish, grounded on Filey Brigg at about 8 A.M. on the 12th January in a thick fog. The sea was smooth. Cobles endeavoured to refloat the...
Gallant Services at Newhaven and Runswick
Three Bronze Medals Awarded.
THERE were heavy seas round the coast whole gale was blowing at the time, and at the end of November, and on the 26th the Motor Life-boat and two tugs put out and 27th of that month ten...
Category: Services
The S.S. Glenpark
Shortly after noon on the 18th April the Coastguard reported that a vessel was in distress on the Holm Sands. The weather was fine at the time, with a light S.W. breeze blowing and a smooth sea, but, as it was feared that she would not be...
The Gathering at Walford School Ealing for the Cheque Handing-Over (See Below) the School Has Adopted the Whitstable IRB
The gathering at Walford School, Ealing, for the cheque handing-over (see below). The school has adopted the Whitstable IRB.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs